Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.


Nicolas Chamfort

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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the &#...
NICOLAS MADURO
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
NICOLAS CAGE
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner ...
NICOLAS CAGE
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themse...
NICOLAS WALTER
When someone says that the free market isn't working, what he means is that he doesn't like the way ...
NICOLAS MARTIN
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
NICOLAS CAUSSIN
I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling...
NICOLAS CAGE
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
NICOLAS BENTLEY
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it fester...
NICOLAS CAGE
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than...
NICOLAS CAGE
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
NICOLAS ROEG
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I c...
NICOLAS CAGE
Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an a...
NICOLAS CAGE
Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - ...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'How...
NICOLAS CAGE
President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible...
NICOLAS MADURO
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid pl...
NICOLAS CAGE
Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a co...
NICOLAS MADURO
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had ...
NICOLAS CAGE
Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a ...
NICOLAS MADURO
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not...
NICOLAS CAGE
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a livi...
NICOLAS MADURO
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligenc...
NICOLAS CAGE
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like...
NICOLAS CAGE
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I st...
NICOLAS CAGE
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft o...
NICOLAS ROEG
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a hug...
NICOLAS ROEG
I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h...
NICOLAS ROEG
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't ...
NICOLAS ROEG
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scar...
NICOLAS CAGE
I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE
I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO
I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we re...
NICOLAS MADURO
The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribut...
NICOLAS MADURO
I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ...
NICOLAS CAGE
I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez...
NICOLAS MADURO
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE
The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Ob...
NICOLAS MADURO
Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of...
NICOLAS SARKOZY
One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually re...
NICOLAS CAGE
I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its at...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE